That disloyal minion!“You thankless traitor!” Sen lambasted Minion Kyle in front of the terrified kobolds, the sheer power of his voice making him fall down on the sand. “You, you… you goblin, how could you do this to me?!”“I swear, Your Majesty, this is not what it looks like!”“It is exactly what it looks like!” Sen replied. “I turn my back on you for five minutes, five minutes, and you cheat on me with another dragon! And a wyvern at that!”A horse-sized wyvern with lustrous black scales, and shiny ruby eyes that would lead any minion astray - and did - stood next to Kyle. The pony to Sen’s pegasus, all pretty looks and nothing else. Wyverns were as dim as cattle, and couldn’t even breathe fire!Sen had caught his minion riding that shameless creature’s back, caressing the scales behind her horns. He felt disgusted just by remembering it.And worse, the minion had brought an iron necklace adjusted to that flying rat’s neck! The minion had intended to replace Sen and then dress he

“Wait, fall back into rank, cowards!” Gustave raised his blade, but his men had already started running away. Even Vilmain’s horse fled at the wyvern's sight, dragging Henry with it. "I will have your head for this!”“Fine!” Vilmain declared, the two criminals left to their fate. “[Summon Lesser Demo—”With a surge of speed he didn’t know he could achieve, Kyle interrupted Vilmain with daggers in both hands. Reacting with lightning fast reflexes, the Fell Bishop parried one with a rapier, while Kyle's other weapon slipped past his guard and stabbed him below the shoulder.Kyle sensed he may have a chance in close combat against Vilmain. The priest had more levels, but in a spellcasting, healer class.Unfortunately, this was a two on one fight.Gustave rushed to his ally’s side, tackling Kyle with his shield. Kyle's [Sun Bracers] activated, empowering him with newfound strength and vitality. The blow almost tossed him to his back, but the Monster Squire managed to stay on his feet.Wit

As dawn rose on Haudemer, Sen allowed himself to rest on his back in front of the city’s entrance.He had spent the night hunting down the last of his walking punching bags, shoring up all the experience he could. His stomach hurt from the manling indigestion.Congratulations! For crushing the Scorchers and stylishly stomping on the enemy leader before an adoring crowd, you earned four [Gladiator] levels! +120 HP, + 8 STR, + 1 VIT, + 4 SKI, +4 AGI, +4 CH, +3 LCK!You gained the [Crowd Favorite] and [Supercrit] class Perks![Crowd Favorite]: You gain a temporary, random boost to one of your statistics when you impress a crowd, alongside the small chance of gaining an item.[Supercrit]: Double the chances of your physical attacks inflicting critical hits.Small chance to get an item if he impressed his fans? Sweet! He should find his minions and try it out.However, what did they mean by stomping on the enemy leader? Sen looked under his left foot, noticing a lump of flesh stuck between

Much to Kyle's silent disturbance, the two skeletons rose back on their own, their bones having changed color to yellow and blue respectively. An unholy glow shone in their eye sockets.Your Kobold minions have been revived as Kobones!“Blue, Yellow?” Red asked as the undead turned at him. “Are you… alright?”“Flesh…” Blue’s voice had turned into a cavernous, terrible voice. “Flesh…”What? “Has the Perk failed?” Kyle frowned.“Nah, I’m kidding chief,” the Blue skeleton replied, regaining his original voice and letting out a strange chuckle. How the skeleton managed to do that without lungs was beyond Kyle. “Still the same old me, except now I can see my clavicule.”“This new voice is awesome! Let me try!” Yellow chirped, his voice turning from his original one to the same cavernous echo. “I am Ranger Yellow, and you have met your dooooooom… doooooooom…”“Red, I am your father,” Blue said with the same voice in a pretty good interpretation of Earl Jones. “Neat!”“Doooooooom…”They too

“How much lava are we talking about?”“I dunno, I’ve never been there. But the place, the Castle of Murmurin, has a spooky reputation. From what I gathered, it was once an officer training facility for the continent’s elite and the headquarter of the Ishfanian Inquisition. At the start of the Century War, Brandon Maure sent his general, the Lich Furibon, to claim the castle, turning it into a haven for fiends and waking up the volcano they had built the fortress on. The Ishfanian Inquisition did its best to fight off demons but—""Twenty words," Sen interrupted his minion.Kyle marked a short pause. "Excuse me, Your Majesty?""I start zoning out after twenty uninteresting words," Sen said. "I know you manlings love to blatter meaningless words, but a dragon has better things to do than listen. Twenty words, twenty-five if you push it, and gold, treasure, and money do not count."Manling Kyle let out a strange sound. "Lich occupying the castle, bad. Killing it, good. Great reward."Sen